Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
byIn his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
A work of art is a new creation, a thing with an existence of its own. As such it lives and speaks not only…
The California Condors – For NVH The way of dodos was their way, improbable birds Fated to fall from Darwin’s leaf-stripped tree. But man,…
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things…
Trinity Sunday In the Beginning, not in time or space, But in the quick before both space and time, In Life, in Love, in…
That the “poetic imagination” can capture a knowledge and truth in its own right has often been noted throughout the ages. In ancient Greece,…
Kristin Schwain. Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, xi + 172 pp., £22.75/$31.50…